G2 Secure Staff, LLC, an aviation staffing company out of Irving, Texas, has agreed to pay $30,000 to a job applicant who was denied work due to end stage renal disease, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently announced.
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Download NowEEOC filed charges against G2 Secure on behalf of a man who applied for a shift supervisor position at the company’s facility at Raleigh-Durham International Airport in North Carolina in May 2010. The applicant completed all of the requirements for obtaining the position except for a drug test, which he could not take because his kidneys no longer function and he is unable to urinate. In lieu of urinalysis, the man asked if he could take the drug test using a hair sample. G2 Secure failed to give him the opportunity to take the drug test by hair sample or any other means, EEOC claimed. As a result, he was denied the job.
In addition to paying monetary damages, G2 Secure agreed to provide appropriate training and revise its antidiscrimination policy to include a reasonable accommodation process and an explanation of the company’s obligations under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
“The employer could have easily made the requested accommodation and avoided this entire process,” said Lynette Barnes, EEOC regional attorney. “This case shows that the EEOC will vigorously prosecute cases where the employer refuses to provide a reasonable accommodation that would enable a person to be hired.”